MrFlagg@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 4 months agoPosthaste: Canada could face two more decades of stagnant growth, report warnsca.finance.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up138
arrow-up138external-linkPosthaste: Canada could face two more decades of stagnant growth, report warnsca.finance.yahoo.comMrFlagg@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squareBlameThePeacock@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·4 months agoAll you have to do is look at Japan to see the future for most western countries. They speedran this whole situation a few decades ago.
minus-squaren2burns@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up27·4 months agoThat feels a bit different to me because Japan refuses basically all immigration and their population is declining, while Canada is accepting record numbers of immigrants and is by far the fastest growing population in the G7.
minus-squareBlameThePeacock@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·4 months agoJapan’s population skyrocketted, and land prices got extremely high, it took another two decades before population started to decline. Doesn’t matter if it was births or immigration. We’re seeing the population increase and land going up. Soon we’ll see immigration cut off as people get mad, and the population will take a decade or two before it starts declining.
All you have to do is look at Japan to see the future for most western countries.
They speedran this whole situation a few decades ago.
That feels a bit different to me because Japan refuses basically all immigration and their population is declining, while Canada is accepting record numbers of immigrants and is by far the fastest growing population in the G7.
Japan’s population skyrocketted, and land prices got extremely high, it took another two decades before population started to decline.
Doesn’t matter if it was births or immigration. We’re seeing the population increase and land going up.
Soon we’ll see immigration cut off as people get mad, and the population will take a decade or two before it starts declining.